Some public posts are missing in facebook graph api querying result - facebook

I have searched this topic for a while, but cannot find any workable solution.
The problem is that I am certainly sure there is a public post in a specific time interval, but it is missing in api response.
For example, a public post api querying url is
https://graph.facebook.com/v2.9/179043295447791_1660881430597296/?access_token=your_token
and my querying url for a page is
https://graph.facebook.com/v2.9/edn168/posts/?limit=100&since=2017-08-20&until=2017-08-25&access_token=your_token
As shown in data, two page ids are the same 179043295447791, and the created date of the missing post is 2017-08-23 which falls in the time interval. Why I cannot get the post?
Does anyone have any tips or suggestions?

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Extracting public data from Facebook in a legal way

I want to make an application that needs to collect some public data from facebook.
Specifically I need to check reactions and comments made on public posts.
I've noticed two things:
First, According to https://www.facebook.com/apps/site_scraping_tos_terms.php,
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Once you have the permission you can get public posts from a page using below API request:
https://graph.facebook.com/<PAGE_ID>/posts?access_token=<ACCESS_TOKEN>&fields=name
Get the id of posts you need details for from the response of the above request
Then you can use the below request's to get reactions and comments of the post based on the post id
Get total reactions:
https://graph.facebook.com/<POST_ID>?fields=reactions.summary(true)&access_token=<ACCESS_TOKEN>
Get total reactions of a specific type (NONE, LIKE, LOVE, WOW, HAHA, SAD, ANGRY, THANKFUL, PRIDE):
https://graph.facebook.com/<POST_ID>?fields=reactions.summary(true).type(<REACTION_TYPE>)&access_token=<ACCESS_TOKEN>
Get comments:
https://graph.facebook.com/<POST_ID>?access_token=<ACCESS_TOKEN>&fields=comments.summary(true).limit(999).filter(stream).fields(id,message,created_time,parent)
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Is there a metric that I can pull from the Facebook Graph API that would tell me either/both Response Rate and/or Average Response Time from a page?
I'll attach a screenshot as to what I'm referring to:
I'm seeing this when I go to Settings -> Insights -> Messages, but would love to know how to pull this information from Facebook.
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https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/search/
This is how you get all recent public posts:
https://graph.facebook.com/search?q=*&type=post
BUT!
The post search does not support limit/offset paging.
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